Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam (detail), c. 1512. Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican.
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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. Art Institute of Chicago.

Hopper Painted Loneliness Before America Had a Name For It

Jun 16
Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze (detail: This Kiss to the Whole World), 1902. Vienna Secession.

Klimt Painted a 34-Metre Frieze for an Exhibition That Lasted Three Months

Jun 12
John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52. Tate Britain, London.

Seven Young Men Signed Their Paintings PRB and Refused to Explain

Jun 09
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915 (later version, c. 1923). Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Malevich Painted a Black Square in 1915 and Hung It in the Icon Corner

Jun 05

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Major Museum Exhibitions Influencing Interior Design This Year

Major Museum Exhibitions Influencing Interior Design This Year

Jan 25
Sustainability and Ethical Printing in Wall Art: A Guide for Conscious Decorators

Sustainability and Ethical Printing in Wall Art: A Guide for Conscious Decorators

Jan 25
The Return of Hand-Drawn Illustration in Modern Interiors

The Return of Hand-Drawn Illustration in Modern Interiors

Jan 16
Interior Design and Wall Art Trends for 2026: The Art of Slowing Down

Interior Design and Wall Art Trends for 2026: The Art of Slowing Down

Jan 15

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Maximalism in Interior Design: A Guide to Maximalist Style

Maximalism in Interior Design: A Guide to Maximalist Style

Jan 21
A Japandi-style interior with a single piece of Japanese-influenced wall art.

Japandi Wall Art Style Guide: How to Master the Look

Jan 21
Abstract Art for Modern Living Rooms: A Curator’s Guide

Abstract Art for Modern Living Rooms: A Curator’s Guide

Jan 18
The Art of Typography: When Text Becomes Image

The Art of Typography: When Text Becomes Image

Jan 06

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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. Art Institute of Chicago. American Art
June 16, 2026

Hopper Painted Loneliness Before America Had a Name For It

Edward Hopper produced about 366 oil paintings in a working life of nearly fifty years. Nighthaw...
Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze (detail: This Kiss to the Whole World), 1902. Vienna Secession. Art History
June 12, 2026

Klimt Painted a 34-Metre Frieze for an Exhibition That Lasted Three Months

In April 1902, the fourteenth exhibition of the Vienna Secession opened. The exhibition was a si...
John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52. Tate Britain, London. Art History
June 09, 2026

Seven Young Men Signed Their Paintings PRB and Refused to Explain

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in September 1848 in a house on Gower Street in centr...
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915 (later version, c. 1923). Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Art History
June 05, 2026

Malevich Painted a Black Square in 1915 and Hung It in the Icon Corner

On 19 December 1915, in Petrograd (the wartime renaming of Saint Petersburg), the exhibition cal...
Thomas Cole, The Consummation of Empire, 1836. New-York Historical Society. American Art
June 02, 2026

Thomas Cole Painted American Landscape as a Warning, Not a Postcard

In 1836, in his studio in the Catskill Mountains, Thomas Cole finished The Course of Empire: fiv...
Sonia Delaunay, Electric Prisms, 1914. Centre Pompidou, Paris. Art History
May 29, 2026

Delaunay Sold Dresses to Pay for the Paintings That Made Her Famous

Sonia Delaunay was born Sara Stern in Ukraine in 1885 and adopted into a wealthy Saint Petersbur...
The Bauhaus building, Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius, 1925-26. Architecture
May 26, 2026

The Bauhaus Lasted Fourteen Years and Reshaped the Twentieth Century

The Staatliches Bauhaus opened in April 1919 in Weimar and was dissolved by Gestapo order in Apr...
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1818. Hamburger Kunsthalle. Art History
May 22, 2026

Friedrich's Wanderer Has His Back to You for a Reason

Caspar David Friedrich painted Wanderer above the Sea of Fog around 1818. A man in a dark green ...
Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907. Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm. Abstraction
May 19, 2026

The Swedish Artist Who Painted Abstraction Five Years Before Kandinsky

In October 1907, in a rented studio in Stockholm, a forty-five-year-old Swedish painter called H...
Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819-1823. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Art History
May 15, 2026

Goya Painted His Last Works on the Walls of His Own House

In 1819, Francisco Goya bought a country house outside Madrid called the Quinta del Sordo, the H...
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1612-13. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. Art History
May 12, 2026

Gentileschi: She Painted Judith Beheading Holofernes Twice

Artemisia Gentileschi painted Judith Beheading Holofernes twice. The first version, finished aro...
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893. Tempera and pastel on cardboard. National Museum of Norway, Oslo. Art History
April 29, 2026

Munch: The Scream Was Painted Four Times

Edvard Munch wrote in his journal that one evening in early 1892, he was walking with two friend...